Ancien hôtel de Rochefort ou hôtel Morel-Sauvegrain

English translation

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History

These three buildings were built along the old north-south route, very commercial until the 18th century, by Jean Morel and his wife, Simone Sauvegrain, who came from influential families at the ducal court in the 15th century. After 1513, the hôtel is divided into three independent dwellings. The primitive unity of the buildings is visible on the rue des Forges. The buildings 54 and 56, rue des Forges, despite additions in the 19th century, still possess parts from the 15th and 16th centuries (spiral staircase turrets, mullioned windows). The courtyard facade of the hôtel Gerland (no. 56) is particularly remarkable with, on the first floor, sculptures representing scenes of combat between horsemen and soldiers, inspired by Italian engravings of antique sarcophagi and, on the second floor, putti presenting escutcheons surrounded by the cordon of the order of Saint-Michel.